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Word Balloon
Sampurna Chatterji
About Sampurna Chatterji
Sampurna Chatterji (1970-) was born in Ethiopia and grew up in Darjeeling. The Fried Frog and Other Funny Freaky Foodie Feisty Poems, Sight May Strike You Blind and Absent Muses are some of the books she has written.
I would like to ride a word balloon,
High up in the sky,
Made of words like bandicoot
And caravanserai.
Or perhaps a word like
GARGANTUAN (that's big)
Or another one like excavate
Which really means to dig.
Sometimes I'll use lighter words
Like ethereal and fey.
Sometimes I'll use heavier ones
So I won't drift away-
Like conjugate and colossal
Like octahedral dome
Like ponderous and parliament
Like tabernacle tome.
But the brightest ones will be
The best, the shiny happy words
Like scintillate and radiate
They'll fly like hummingbirds.
Don't ask me where I find them,
They're in the dictionary,
And back home I feed them all
To my pedigreed canary!
Available Answers
- 1.
What does the poet wish to do?
- 2.
Why do you think lighter words will be required at times?
- 3.
What functions will the heavier words perform?
- 4.
Where does the poet find the words that the word balloon would be made of?
- 5.
But the brightest ones will be/The best, the shiny happy words
- What does the poet tell us about the nature of the words in this stanza?
- What are the 'bright' words mentioned by the poet?
- What figure of speech has been used in this stanza? Explain it.
- 6.
And back home I feed them all/To my pedigreed canary!
- What did the poet feed to the canary?
- What does the word 'pedigreed' mean?
- Why do you think a pedigreed canary would be 'fed' these things?
2 more answer(s) available.